Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot show a student's emotional preparedness or his ability to adjust to House life, these tests in many cases do not even measure academic competence effectively. Much of the scholastic difficulties that Sophomore Standing students encounter--and apparently these are what the Committee was largely concerned with--might disappear if the Advanced Placement tests were more adequate to their task...
...strengthen reinforcement, the student is fed cues such as the first or last letter of the answer. Gradually, the cues are withdrawn so the student can stand on his own. Medical students see labels on an anatomy diagram disappear in successive frames. Third-grade spellers may learn "manufacture" in six frames: 1) Manufacture means to make or build. Chair factories manufacture chairs. Copy the word here. - the word here: 2) Part of the word is like part of the word factory. Both parts...
...next decade will be the most experimental, most in jazz history," predicted Nat Hentoff, co-editor Jazz Review. In a speech which marked the beginnings four-day Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival, Hentoff was taking its place as a true art form and disappear "quasi-folk music...
...majestic finish, Igor played first violin, David second, in the D Minor Concerto for Two Violins, and the contrasts suddenly seemed to disappear. At one point it seemed to listeners that the elder Oistrakh had the more penetrating, his son the more silvery, tone; but when the same passage recurred in the concerto, the two violinists seemed to have swapped tone colors and styles. Said the Daily Telegraph's David Cooper: "The two play not simply as one mind, but as one instrument." The Oistrakhs agreed. Said Igor: "We don't know or feel differences or similarities that...
...Crimson squad. The varsity had pointed for an upset all season long, and might have beaten the Elis with a healthy squad. But valiant efforts by Mark Mullin and Tom Blod. Kett were thwarted by illness and injury, and the Crimson saw an early 31 1/2-8 1/2 lead inexorably disappear...